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CHICAGO AREA TIMEX USERS GROUP

VOLUME 2 ISSUE 8/9

NITE-TIMES INFO

The Nite-Tines News is the newsletter of the Chicago Area
Timex Users Group. It is available as a Public Domain feature of
the Sinclair Survivalist BBS (312)473-9415. If you are not a
CATUG member and desire to have a hard-copy mailed to your hone,
please provide $6.00 per year to cover the cost of postage. For
an annual fee of $10.00 you can become a CATUG member with full

ership privledges. The Chicago Area Timex Users Group is

pleased to exchange newsletters with other Timex and Sinclair
Supporting users groups. If you desire to reprint any articles
that appear here, please provide credit to the author and this
newsletter. If you have any suggestions or would like to submit
an article, you may upload it onto the Sinclair Survivalist BBS
and leave a message about it with Sysop Gary or write to:

The Chicago Area Timex Users Group

Nite-Times News Editor

1885A Yorktown Avenue

Great Lakes, Illinois 60088.

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ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE

October and November CATUG Meetings
Nite-Times Classifieds

Reports and Comments From The First SNUG Conference
Timex Tidbits

Tape Unlocker (TS-100@ Program)

Interface A Joystick To Your TS-100@ Or 2X8)
Cleveland T/S Computer Fest

Third Annual Great NW T/S Mini Fair Report
2X TERM180 Quirk

CATVG Library Notes

Tinex/Sinclair BBS Directory

CATUG Member List

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 1988

OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER
C.A.T.U.G. MEETINGS

The Chicago Area Timex Users Group meets on the third
saturday of each month in the Downers Grove Public Library's
Conference Room, fron 12:00 to 5:00. The next two meetings vill
be on the 15th of October and the 19th of November. The library
is located at 1050 Curtiss Street in Downers Grove. The CATUG
representative for this meeting is Steve Cooper and he can be
contacted evenings at (312) 968-3553.

DIRECTIONS FROM THE NORTH: Take 1-294 (Tri-State Tollway)
south to 1-88 (East West Tollway). Drive west on l-88 and exit
at Highland Avenue. Take Highland south about three niles,
during which it's name will change to Main Street. You will
cross the Burlington-Northern tracks in downtown Downers Grove
and turn right (west) at the next street (Burlington). Proceed
one block to Forest Ave. At the intersection of Forest and
Burlington is a public parking lot. The Library is located one
block south of Burlington at the intersection of Curtiss and
Forest. Please note that Burlington is a one-way street
(westbound) and Curtiss is a one-way street (eastbound).

DIRECTIONS FROM THE SOUTH: Take I-55 (Stevenson Expway) to
the Lemont Rd North exit. Take Lemont Road north about four
miles during which it will merge into Main Street. As you go
into downtown Downers Grove, you will pass Curtiss Street, and
turn left at the next intersection (Burlington), which is the
last street before you cross the railroad tracks. Proceed one
block west to Forest Ave. At the intersection of Forest and
Burlington is a public parking lot. The Library is located one
block south of Burlington at the intersection of Curtiss and
Forest. Please note that Burlington is a one-way street
(westbound) and Curtiss is a one-way street (eastbound).

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NITE-TIMES CLASSIFIEDS

The Nite-Times Classified Ads are a service provided to all
of our readers, Please submit your ads prior to the 15th of each
month. They may be mailed to the Nite-Times News or sent to
Sysop Gary via the Feedback Message Base on the Sinclair
Survivalist BBS (312) 473-9415

1 1 1 1 £
FOR SALE

AFFORDABLE HI-RES PLOTTING for the TS-2068 and Commodore 1520
four-color printer/plotter! The plotter can be found at
Toys-R-Vs stores for $29.95. Iterface hardware (from bareboard
to asseabled & tested) as well as utility software for screen to
plotter praphic transfer, banner making, and word processing are
available from:

John McMichael

1710 Palmer Orive

Laramie, WY 82070
A large SASE gets you more info and a sample plot.

1 1 1 1 £
FOR SALE

$ 40.00 Tube Tester, Heath W/roll chart

$125.00 CRT Rejuvinator, Color & 8/¥

$ 85.00 Heath 2 meter Linear 40 watt

$150.00 New 10 Mhz Heath Dual Trace Scope, needs some work

$100.00 Dual A&J Microdrives with IF-and 24 to 30 Wafers

$150.00 Heath Auto Ignition Scope with 12V Inverter

$ 75.00 Flyback Tester with HV Probe

$ 50.00 IBM Serial Thermal Printer

$ 65.00 Color Bar Generator, new & needs work

$ 85.00 Electronic Switch, dual trace fron single trace scope

$ 75.00 HM2141 POW/SWR Meter

$150.00 HW-8 QRP Transceiver

$ 60.00 Phonemate Answering Machine

$100.00 One Lot two way radio

$225.00 HW6502 2 meter hand held with speaker nike and 25 watt
mobile mount.

Nobile Two-way Radio with remote control.
All of the above equipment is for sale or trade. I am looking
for a disk disk drive system for my TS-2068, preferably a LArken
with.25" drives.
and trades are final. All prices include shipping to any
reasonable location. For nore info contact:
Bill's Electronics
R.R. 1, Box 364, Bridgeport, IL 62417
Tel; (618) 945-7314

REPORTS AND COMMENTS FROM THE
FIRST SNUG CONFERENCE

FROM: Pete Fischer

If anyone is curious about the SNUG Conference on Compuserve
on Aug 17th, I have a brief report. We had as many as 13-14 in
attendence from all across the country. It was generally
successful, although some time was lost due to some users being
unfamiliar with the system (Compuserve Chat) and also due to a
lack of concrete agenda and format. Nonetheless, even with these
limitations, a large number of ideas were discussed. In
particular, a newsletter and a Public Domain Software Library.
In the discussion of the newsletter, many presented variations
on the idea of making SNUG revolve around a BBS, and
dissemination the newsletter and software from there. But, even
among us "heavey modem users”, it was acknowledged that not all
users share our enthusiasm for telecommunications. So it was
nore or less decided that any newsletter MUST take the fora of
Hardcopy.

The second main issue discussed was the Public Domain
Library. In early descriptions of SNUG, it was suggested that
the way around the “everybody's-got-a-different-storage-device”
problem was to disseminate the PD software from a BBS. But
largely for the same reasons as the newsletter (i.e. it would
leave too many people out), we canned that idea. Next, a solely
tape-based distribution was proposed. But tape reproduction i.
very labor-intensive, and disk is so much wore efficient. So the
last concensus was that all the disk formats AND tape should be
supported. Some time was spent hashing out the mechanics of
this, but no decisions reached.

Finally, we all agreed to meet again in two weeks, on Aug
31. I hope to upload a more detailed desription of what
transpired and proposed agenda for the next discussion onto The
Astral Plane in the near future. Thanks for helping SNUG
grow... Pete

FROM; Jim Rodlin

Hello all, it was good to see that the SNUG conference went
well, with good attendance (I counted 15 people, assuming I
didn’t miss anyone)... Hopefully the meeting on the 3lst will be
equally as successful. One question though: We are all
participating in this, and offering our support, but who is
actually going to RUN the setup? Mel? And what will SNUG
actually 00? Who's going to publish the newsletter, and who will
tackle the formidable task of compiling a national PD software
library? And who is going to make these decisions? A few members
of our BCS group voiced concern that SNUG might overshadow the
local groups. What can SNUG do that the local groups aren't
already doing? The BCS S/T group is also in a peculiar position
because, although we are centered in Boston, the BCS is >
national organization and our aims are almost exactly the same
as SNUG's are. So how does this affect things?

TIMEX TIDBITS

Keith Sheehan is trying to get a Sinclair SIG going on the
Cyclops BBS. All the SYSOP needs is 5 Sinclair enthusiasts in
order to get one going. If you are interested, leave the SYSOP
EMAIL on the Cyclops BBS telling him that you would like to have
a Timex/Sinclair SIG. The Number for the Cyclops BBS is
839-5002.

The CATS Newsletter reports that a Timex Fest is being
planned for May 6th and 7th of 1989 in New Carrollton, Maryland.
The event will be hosted by the Capital Area Timex Sinclair
Users Group. For more information write: CATS, P.0.Box 467,
Fairfax Station, VA 22039.

Vernon Smith reports that the v1.2 Keyboard chips (advertised
in QL World) that are a replacement for the 8049 chip, work
perfectly. These new chips prevent the "rollover effect”, double
letters that occur when you accidently touch an adjacent key.

The ISTUG newsletter reports that the Pixel Print icons can
be used with the Zebra Systems Greating Card Designer program.
All you need to do is resave each of your Pixel Print icons with
".6" as an extension.

Butch Weinberg has reported that the Great Northwest
Computerfest was a great show. Although poorly attended, there
were plenty of interesting seminars and products. Butch has also
indicated that he is planning on purchasing video tape on the
seminars which we may use at a few of the upcomming CATUG

sings.

The HATS Newsletter reports that on page 103 of the September
issue of Popular Science, there is an ad for a Sinclair MSDOS
machine. The picture looks very auch like an Amstrad 1512. As
nost Timexers know, Amstrad owns the rights to the Sinclair
name. The company selling these machines is Electronic Express
and their phone number is (214) 247-4908.

Andy Hadesky (Editor of Timelinez) has sent the CATUG a
sample of how their latest newsletter was supposed to have been
published. There was concern because the issues that were
received by several of our members were unreadable. Andy's sorry
for the mishap and he has assured me that he will do everything
in his power to ensure that this doesn't happen again.

TAPE UNLOCKER (TS1000 PROGRAM)
By Tim L. Ward
Reprinted from KATS Komputer Knews

First of all, type-in this very short POKE routine.
10 REM 612345678
20 FOR X=16514 TO 16522
30 INPUT A
40 POKE X,A
50 NEXT X
<<RUN AND ENTER?)

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Now, enter the following data using the POKE routine:
62,0,50,6,64,1,55,0,201. Now line 1@ should look as shown
below:

1@ REM Y M RNO R TAN
Now add the remained of the program listed.
2@ REM TAPE LOCKER
PUBLIC DOMAIN LIBRARY OF TIM L. WARO
3@ SCROLL
40 PRINT "INPUT PROGRAM NAME”
5@ INPUT N$
60 POKE 16526, CODE NS(LEN N$)
70 LOAD N$( TO LEN N$-1)+CHR$ USR 16514
80 REM
NO MORE WORRY ABOUT TAPES THAT WON'T LET YOU MAKE COPIES
OR LISTINGS
9@ STOP
106 SAVE "UNLOCK"
110 LIST
INTERFACE A JOYSTICK TO YOUR
TS-1000 OR 2X81
By Gary Lessenberry

Qne of ay great passions with ay 2X81 and TS-1000 computers
has been the many hardware projects that can be easily and
inexpensively built for them. The following project was inspired
by an article from the July edition of Syne magazine.

Many of the 2X programs use the unsifted arrow keys to direct
curor movements. This project will actually connect a joystick
to the arrow keys (5,6,7,8 & 0). There are two parts to this
project, the first part will install the joystick port. The
second part will modify the the joystick.

The following parts are required for this project:

1. One DB-9 connector

2. One Joystick (Radio Shack Part No. 270-1711)
3. Approx three feet of stranded wire

4. Solering iron and solder

5. One exacto knife

The easiest part of this project is actually installing the
joystick port. If you have moved your TS-100@ motherboard into
another case (as I have), finding a place to mount the joystick
port should pose no problem. Select you location and draw a
rough outline of the port there. Cut out the outline and mount
the DB-9 connector there. Using figures 1 & 2 as guides, solder
six wires from the DB-9 connector to the TS-1000's keyboard
connectors on the underside (non-component) of the TS-1000
motherboard. If you still have a virgin TS-1000, there isn’t
huct room, So you may choose to have the wires for the port exit
through a hole drilled in the side of the computer where the
joystick port will stand alone without being mounted.

For the joystick I used a Coleco joystick which I bought for
$2.95 at Radio Shack. Other joysticks can be used. I just like
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INTERFACE A JOYSTICK TO YOUR
TS-1000 OR 2X81
continued from page 3

this one because it’s cheap. First, open up the joystick case by
removing the five screws on the underside of the joystick.
Actually, four of the screws hold the case together abd the
fifth on holds the printed circuit board to the bottom of the
case. Remove the printed circuit board and turn it over so that
the underside (non component side) is visable. Using an exacto
knife, cut the D4 run as shown in figure 3. Using the stranded
wire, make three wire jumpers and solder them to the printed
circuit board in the locations illustrated in figure 3.
Reassemble the joystick.

To test your joystick, plug it into your TS-1000 joystick
port and apply power to your system. By moving the joystick
around and pressing the FIRE button, you should get the
indications listed in the table below.

LEFT - S:
RIGHT - 8
| - 7
DOWN - 6
FIRE - @

CLEVELAND T/S COMPUTER FEST
Downloaded From The The Timelines BBS

The Midwest T/S Computer Conference is a big success! We are
going to break even on the expenses. We had 25 pre-paids and
about 75+ at the door. Some had their wifes and kids with them.
Everyone was buying and seliing. It was not swamped, but the
vendors and our club were not staring across the aisles at each
other either. What made my day was that i oougnt = iioclair Slat
Screen TV that ssid as oroke 72° EE 46 and it works! At had a
š ‘sie woh yt 7) Diva izay had extra Micro Drive Units for the
r $2.00 each. A+ had used working QL's for $45.00 each.
Other vendors had equally good deals. The details of the vendors
great deals where too numberous for me to report it all! Sharps
had the Midi Interface and software for the QL at $139.00! In
all this was the first time that I got see and touch most of the
QL stuff like the keyboard for QL up-grades and QL expandsion
boxes that I have only been able to readbout! I have only listed
here the items that took my interest and I can not do justice to

all vendors and flee market dealers in this limited space. In “—-

all it was fantastic to see that many Timex/Sinclair users and
vendors all at one time!
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THIRD ANNUAL GREAT NORTHWEST
«fMEX/SINCLAIR MINI FAIR REPORT
(Reprinted From the VISTA Newsletter)

What I am refering to as "The Fair” took place August 6th &
7th at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Portland, Oregon. The fair's
advertised hours were 9-6, but for most everyone, it was two
solid days of "Sinclair Heaven". Attendance was estimated at
180+, quite a bit fewer tan the organizers (Time Designs
Magazine and CCAT/S User Group) were expecting, but those in
attendance were treated to the best our hobby had to offer. Seen
at the fair were Sharp's, with a table full of QL goods, the new
288 and Psion Organizer; SEATUG Group of Seattle, displaying
hardware demos, educational software and a Radio Shack Armatron
robot controlled by a TS-1000; VSUG of Vancouver, Canada with a
doorprize drawing and a computer display; Jack Dohany with his
extensive line of "Fairware’, hardware for sale, demonstrations
of 2068 disc systems and LOTS of free advice; 2068 UPDATE, the
magazine for 2068 disc systems had free issues on the table; a
handout from the John Qliger Co., maker of T/S related hardware;
a large double table presided over by Tim and Stephanie Woods of
"Time Designs", featuring all of their back isssues, their
newest books, 2068 tech manuals, T/S T-Shirts, and an expanse of
T/S hardware, Foote Print printer I/Fs, and even an original
Spectrum Plus!; A+ Computer featured the new 288, with the Psion
Meaanizer "pocket file cabinet" also in evidence; and a swap

.@, which tended to be empty mainly because things lasted
about five minutes before deals were struck and new homes found.
VISTA nember Tim Ward had great success here, selling both his
3" disc drive and surplus 2050 modem. Ed Grey Enterprises was
represented by Ed and son Damali, who dispensed copies of Loader
V and Spectera-64, 2050 modem boards, Z-SIO interfaces and Sams
ComputerFacts with plenty of advise, conversation and good humor
to go around. Free newsletters and back issues were distributed
by CATS of Fairfax Station, VA; Triangle Sinclair Users Group of
Carrboro, NC; The Hacker from Las Vegas, NV; the hosts, CCAT/S
of Clackanas County, OR; and VISTA of Vashon Island, WA.

Two vendors put together outstanding dispalys of T/S
merchandise --- RMG Enterprises of Oregon City, OR and Zebra
Systems of Woodhaven, NY. RMG literally brought a ton of stuff
-- hardware such as disc drives, printers, TS-2@68s and a number
or new TS-1500s, modems, PC-8300s, power supplies and cases,
their line of Larken Disc interfaces, and surplus T/S ware,
including power supplies, 2068 keyboards and bare 1/S-1000
motherboards as spare parts for $4. I plugged mine in and it
worked perfectly! The bounty didn't stop there either, as RMG
offered a number of British Sinclair magazines at $2.75 each,
cases of T/S books, lots of software, discs, disc banks and Fair
Buttons. Needless to say, theirs was a busy booth. Zebra Systens
also earned praise (and customers) for their large line of
software for Sinclair computers of all kinds.

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They offered Spectrum games and Timex 2068 software at $5 each,
TS-1000 tapes at 5/$10, Zebra's line of graphics software for
the 15-2068, the last dozen Zebra Graphics Tablets at $45,
Menotech 64K and 32K RAMS at the lowest prices I've seen,
original 2X-81 kits and non-working ZX-8ls as parts, and much
nore. At the end of the Fair, Zebra had a “fire sale’, with
TS-100@ software at $] each, and Timex 2068 software at $2. Not
to be outdone, Ed Grey began a round of price cutting, and he
was heard saying "I done want to haul any of this back to
L.A.!". "Hectic" best describes the ensuing activity. At the
VISTA booth, the public domain software tapes went quickly -
librarian Tin Ward brought five sets of five tapes and was
taking orders by the end of the Fair. The VISTA newsletter
special edition was a popular “freebie” and the demonstration
graphics disc ran on ay TS-15@@ both days with no hang-ups. Also
stopping by the VISTA booth were members Don Walterman (Sterling
Heights, MI), Joan Kealy (El Paso, TX), and Clarence Hamilton
(Vernon, BC). It is really a pleasure to finally meet the people
you spend time writing letters to. The final "THANK YOU" goes to
the CCAT/S User Group, hosts for the event. They were extremely
well represented with a number of QLs and 20685 set up,
demonstrating computer control of machines, graphic likenesses
of each group member, a BetaBasic (2068 extended language)
display program -- a little of everything. Another of their
special touches was the club banner, four by six feet and very
nicely done; adding to the "no nonsense” look of their area, it
Said "Here's a club that gets things done”. That they did, and
a great debt of thanks is owed to CCAT/S, hosts; Time Designs”
and RMG Enterprises, sponsors; and Rod Gowen, producer, who
really mobilized his forces and knocked himself out to give us,
the T/S community, one of the best events ever. Door prizes and
deals were in abundance, and to sum it all up in the words of Ed
Gray, "Where were you?”.
A Z2X-TERM*80 QUIRK
By Fred Nachbaur
Downloaded From Nicholson Nitetine Network

Z1-TERM280 sends a DEL (Delete = ASCII 7Fh = 127d) when you
press DELETE. Unfortunately, the MichTron BBS program used by
the NNN does not recognize this to “delete last character sent."
Instead, it uses BS (Backspace = ASCII 08h). The same very
probably holds true for some other BBS's. There are two ways to
get around this: an easy way, and a better way.

The easy way (requires no program modifications) is to send
a CONTROL H (shift 3 then H). Each CTRL H will delete back one
space. This is a workable method if you're a reasonably good
typist, and catch your error shortly after making it.

The “better” way is to modify Z1-TERM180's lookup tables to send
a BS when pressing DELETE. Do this as follows:

1. LOAD ZX-TERM%80 (either the original or your reconfigured
version). Press BREAK when loaded. (continued on page 6)

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A ZX-TERM*8@ QUIRK
continued from page 5

2. Enter the following commands:
LET A$(9)=CHR$ 87
LET A$(344)=CHR$ 8

3. Save the modified program for future use.

Delete (Shift @) now sends a BS, but continues to print a
left-pointing arrow. If you need to send a DEL for some
reason, you can still do so using SYMBOL SHIFT 8 (also
shows as left-arrow).
CATUG LIBRARY NOTES
By Gary Lessenberry

The Chicago Area Timex Users Group Library has received the
following listed articles from other user groups via our
newsletter exchange. The newsletters with these articles will be
available for check out at the monthly CATUG meetings.

1. CATS Newsletter (Aug 1988)

QL On The QT

Using Eyes And Fingers (15-2068 Prog)

Hardware Savvy

SLUG Newsletter (July 1988)

SLUG Newsletter (Aug 1988) Z:

1.$.7.U.6. Newsletter (July 1988)

HATS Newsletter (Aug 1988)

Editing With Toolkit II

6. HATS Newsletter (Sep 1988)

A 2068 Music Program

7. The Hacker (Aug 1988)

8. PACC Talk (Aug 1988)

9. The RAMTOP (Nay/June/July 1988)
Caps Lock Indicator (QL Prog)
Nike_Term (QL Porg)

10. Sinc-Link (July-Aug 1988)

Disk Management Utilities

Game Hacks

PC8300 ROM Upgrade

Larkin RAMdisk For The TS-2068

11. KATS Komputer Knews (Aug 1988)
Tapper Program Review

12. The Sinc Times (May/June/July 1988)
A Tour Of The Bus Depot
QL Printer Codes (QL Prog)

Light Bar Menus On The 2X81/TS1600

Engineering Applications (T$-2068 Prog)
13. SMUG Bytes (Aug 1988)

Rudy's "SQ" Notes

Bill On Mscript

14. Pixel Print Press (Summer 1988)
15. The Data Expansion (May 1988)
AERCO V.9 RP/M System
CP/M Utility - DBL4.COM
Drop-Down Nenus-Listing (TS-2068 Prog)
16. The Data Expansion (June 1988)
What Might Have Been
MBASIC Blues
17. The Data Expansion (July 1988)
Aerco Still There
Practical Bank-Switching For The 2068
A Change In The FWKUG MBBS
18. The Data Expansion (Aug 1988)
A Change In The FWKUG MBBS
New Gear For The System
Some Problems Develope With The Modes
More CPM And DOS Tips
The Mysterious K
19. VISTA Newsletter (Vol. 2, No. 4)
The Stopper (TS1000 Prog)

20. VISTA Newsletter (Vol. 2, No. 5) I
Larken DDI Report/ Living With A Larken
Third Annual Great NW T/S Mini Fair Report
Install A Reset Switch

CHICAGO AREA TIMEX USERS GROUP
(September 1988)

BLAYNE ARNESON:

9211 $. HARDING AVE, EVERGREEN, IL 60642
PAUL BEATTY:

7634 N. GREENVIEW, CHICAGO, IL 60626
JAMES BREZINA:

1029 SPRING RD, ELMHURST, IL 60126
JERRY COWLER:

6928 N. ROCKWELL, CHICAGO, IL 60659
STEVE COOPER:

1300 MAPLE, DOWNERS GROVE, IL 60515
JOHN L. DONALDSON:

835 FOXWOOD CIRCLE, GENEVA, IL 66124
BILL DONETS:

2905 COVERT RD., GLENVIEW, IL 60025
MARK DORINSON:

P.0.80X 351, FRANKFORT, IL 60423

KEN DUDA:

3345 N. OKETO AVE, CHICAGO, IL 60634
ALPHONSO FENG:

15 WAKE ROBIN CT, WOODRIDGE, IL 60517
GLORIA GEDONIUS:

459 W. MELROSE, APT 1 E, CHICAGO, IL 60657
JIM HENDERSON:

5710 N. MERRIMAC, PEORIA, IL 61614
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Dear Timex - Sinclair User,
TS-2068 - Sinclair QL - Sinclair Z88

UPDATE Magazine is expanding. The October 1988 issue will begin coverage of the
Sinclair QL, the 288, and the TS-2068. UPDATE Magazine does not seek to draw away
subscribers from other publicatins but rather to support the users with a new and
unique group of services. UPDATE highly recommends that all users subscribe to Time
Designs, Syncware News, and Quantum Levels magazines (As well as UPDATE). This way
the users will get 85% of ALL information published about the user's computer system.
The other 15% comes in User Group Newsletters.

UPDATE has a year of publishing under the belt and has a pretty good idea about
what the users want. UPDATE is not "casual reading", but is "Programming Intensive".
Programming is covered from Beginner to Advanced level. Other features of the
magazine are Reviews, Telecomputing, Disk drive systems, Hardware projects, and
Peripheral devices.

UPDATE is a "participating" magazine. Most of the articles and utilities
presented in each issue are by Guest Writers. These writers are the experts amongst
us who freely give their programming expertise out of their desire to help others.
Why a Quarterly magazine? Well, it takes three months to put together an issue of
UPDATE. All of the programs and utilities are NEW, and need to be tested. Complete
instructions are given in the UPDATE pages. Then there is the "Issue Disk" to
assemble.

The Key-in projects vary from "one liners" to extensive softwares. These
programs and utilities of each issue are offered in "Issue Disks" at a very low price
for those who want ready to use programs. UPDATE shares the proceeds from Issue Disk
sales with the contributing authors. This is just a token to show appreciation for
their efforts and to pay for their expense. The Issue Disk is supplied in all disk
` formats, and for the TS-2068 Oliger DOS, Larken DOS, and Aerco FD-68 DOS.

A primary goal of UPDATE is to sponsor the development of DISK BASED software and
utilities for the three computer systems. Already, this goal is being realized for
the TS-2068. In the case of the QL, UPDATE will offer Disk Software and utilities,
plus a dubbing service for those who use MDV only. North American software sources
will be developed. There is a critical shortage of useful QL utilities because of the
low profit potential for such programs. QL utilities will be of continuing emphasis.

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4YICAGO AREA TIMEX USERS GROUP TIMEX/SINCLAIR BBS DIRECTORY
continued from page 6 (September 1988)
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626 E. 144TH PLACE, DOLTON, IL 60419 (312) 841-5034 BULLETIN BOARD NUMBER NOTES RATES
WILLIAM J. KLEINS tte Á Á.
400 E. GARFIELD, INGLESIDE, IL 60041 (312) 587-5665 PASSAIC BBS... ww (201) 471-6391 BLD @S 15/14
DAVE LEBOWITZ: WYSIWYG BBS... (201) 956-7703 BLD @S 15/14
934 GARDNER ROAD, FLOSSMOOR, IL 60422 (312) 798-4365 TIMECXOCHANGE BBS... .... (213) 329-3922 BN DS 17/15
GARY L. LESSENBERRY: GREY MATTER BBS... (213) 971-6260 @H0@S 17/15
1885A YORKTOWN AVE., GREAT LAKES, IL 60088 (312) 473-9415 STARTEXT. ©. 2 (214) 877-1041 8 M$ $ 16/15
LEOPOLD MAJEWSKI: RON'S ROS.. ......... (817) 540-4183 8D @ S 16/15
14120 WINDSOR CT., WOODSTOCK, IL 60098 UNLISTED TIMELINES BBS... n.n. (216) 671-6922 8 H D SS 15/14
JAMES MCCALL: CLEVELAND FREE-NET BBS... . (216) 368-3888 7L @ S 15/14
523 W. BROMPTON AVE. #114, CHICAGO IL 60657 (312) 472-6036 KINGS MARKET BBS... (303) 665-6091 BHD 0 S 16/15
FRANK W. HILLS: ASTRAL PLANE BBS... ..... (312) 476-7785 BLD eS -----
417 $. 47TH AVE, BELLWOOD, IL 60104 (312) $44-1918 PEOPLE-LINK. ... 1... (800) 826-8855 BLD$ -----
NAZIR PASHTOON: COMPUSERVE. |.. ww, (312) 443-1250 7 H D $ $ -----
940 BEAU DRIVE #204, DES PLAINES, IL 60016 (312) 439-1679 SERIAL PORT BBS... wk (313) 286-0145 BHD S 15/13
LAWRENCE P. SAUTER: ACCESSSLINEXBBS . ww (317) 841-7072 BHO S 14/12
7747 W. BRYN MAWR, CHICAGO, IL 60631 (312) 763-5383 LOGON BBS ........... (415) 571-6911 BHD OS 16/14
EDWIN SCHOEN: LOGON BBS.. naaa (408) 475-0880 8 MD 0 S 16/14
P.O.BOX 9076, DOWNERS GROVE, IL 60515 (312) 852-9372 RM6.8S........... (503) 656-8072 SH@SS 17/15
AL SHERMAN: PEO oe as eas (505) 522-7081 BLO ? 17/15
9216 MARIE, SCHILLER PARK, IL 60176 (312) 671-2720 IOWA SINCLAIR BBS... .... (515) 262-4169 BND S 15/13
LEE THORESEN! CITYLINK TOWER. |... (604) 222-2000 8H ? 16/14
IICKORY LANE, CRETE, IL 60417 (312) 672-9066 NICHOLSON NIGHTIME NETWORK. . . (604) 354-4666 8H D S 32/27
JuNH ULREICH: OVEGO FREE ACADEMY BBS... . (607) 754-3420 8 L0 $ 16/15
203 NAUVOO, PARK FORREST, IL 60466 (312) 748-6004 TORRE eens 3 a S (607) 785-2118 8 LD $ 16/15
BUTCH WEINBERG! THE TIMEWARP BBS... ... (617) 481-0555 7L D @ S 16/15
5028 1/2 S. ELLIS, CHICAGO, IL 60615 UNLISTED FLEXI BBS.. wd, (617) 648-7651 BL@ $ 16/15
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GLEN MORLAND; RATES ARE THE CHARGES FROM CHICAGO FOR THE FIRST MINUTE & EACH
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